The field of crowd sourcing is growing quickly and strives to go past it’s early stigma of being used only for very simple tasks such as image labeling and object tagging. Research in crowd processes focused intensely on quality assurance in crowd environments and yielded various patterns for structuring crowd workers such as Find-Fix-Verify [Bernstein et al. 2010], Iterative Refinement [Little...

Crowdsourcing has widely been used as a strategy for sourcing ideas and efforts to facilitate innovation and new product development. However, research into to the value creation of crowdsourcing and the efficacy of the crowd is still limited. In this study, we investigate a crowdsourced new product development context and apply the framework of collective intelligence to understand the crowd c...

The use of computational systems to aid in the design of magic tricks has been previously explored. Here further steps are taken in this direction, introducing the use of computer technology as a natural language data sourcing and processing tool for magic trick design purposes. Crowd sourcing of psychological concepts is investigated; further, the role of human associative memory and its explo...

Motivated by the Bike Angels Program in New York's Citi and Boston's Blue Bikes, we study use of (registered) volunteers to re-position empty bikes for riders a bike sharing system. We propose method that can be used deploy system, based on real time distribution different stations. To account (random) route demand network, solve related transshipment network design model construct sparse struc...